Make Your Body Ripe For Miracles

You may know that your body is brilliantly equipped with natural self-repair mechanisms that repair broken proteins, kill cancer cells, fight infections, retard aging, and generally keep your body healthy. But did you know that these self-repair mechanisms can be flipped on – or off – with the power of thoughts, beliefs, and feelings that originate in the mind?

It’s not New Age hocus pocus. It’s simple physiology! Here’s how it happens for the nerds among you who, like me, like to understand how things in the body work.

The Stress Response Vs. Relaxation Response

Your nervous system operates in two different states – the “fight-or-flight” stress response, when the sympathetic nervous system dominates, and the relaxation response, when the parasympathetic nervous system is in charge. But here’s the kicker- your body’s natural self-repair mechanisms only activate when your body is in a relaxation response!

The average person experiences 50 stress responses per day, and every time you have a fearful thought or a pessimistic belief or a resentful feeling, you trigger stress responses that fill the body with poisonous stress hormones like cortisol and epinephrine. But when you have an optimistic belief or a loving thought or a feeling of compassion, you activate relaxation responses, and the body can then do what it does best – heal itself.

Balancing The Nervous System

How can you help your body heal itself? It’s all about reducing stress responses and adding in relaxation responses. Reducing your stress requires taking a good look at your life to determine whether there are any areas where you’re living out of alignment with your truth and personal integrity. Maybe you’re in a soul-sucking job or a toxic relationship, or maybe it’s time to finally forgive your father or pursue a dream. While reducing stress responses can require some radical actions, activating relaxation responses can be easy and pleasurable.

Here are a few scientifically-proven relaxation response activators:

Laughter

Playing with animals

Meditation

Dance

Generous giving of time or gifts

Massage

Creative expression

Attending religious services

Practicing gratitude

Nurturing touch

Seeing an alternative medicine practitioner

Listening to music

Still not sure how to heal yourself? Get quiet and tap into your intuition and ask yourself this one question – “What does my body need in order to heal?” Let yourself hear the truth, and then choose one baby step you can take right now that will either reduce stress responses in your life or increase relaxation responses. Then muster up your courage and take action!

My Self-Healing Story

By the time I was 33 years old, I had been diagnosed with a whole laundry list of health problem my doctors deemed chronic and incurable, but by making The Diagnosis for myself and writing my own Prescription, I was able to enlist the help of my body’s natural self-repair mechanisms and get off all but 1 of the 7 medications I was taking – and I’m now symptom-free. You can read all the juicy details of my personal Prescription – all the things I did to overcome my multiple health conditions – in my book Mind Over Medicine, which you can order here.

You can activate the same sort of radical self-healing in yourself when you make your body ripe for miracles by allowing your self-repair mechanisms to operate optimally.

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I’m very excited to read the book. I was having seizures and was told I would be in a wheel chair in two years from the paralyzing pain of rheumatoid arthritis about 20 years ago. I was intuitively guided to Tom Kenyon’s “Brain States” book and audios. I also began to shift my thinking about the conditions of my body and began to see them as good things…wake up calls. I also began to become aware of more beliefs and assumptions, question them, and shift them. There was more, but the end result was that the seizures stopped and I’m 60 now. I’m teaching free form dance, take care of my 40 acres, run women’s retreats, dance all night almost every weekend!!! I now teach the process I used to awaken to my inner power to women. Our greatest medicine is within us!! Thank you! Dinah ~ http://www.AwakenedPotentials.com

elizabeth

I am very excited to order your book. Thank you for sharing your gifts with all of us!!
Peace & Raw Health,
Elizabeth

Probably the most timely post I’ve ever read – the universe truly guides us to what we need. Thank you Lissa, you popped into my inbox through ZenHabits, with a message I needed to hear. Look forward to reading your book and embracing your wisdom and guidance.

Lissa_Rankin

So glad you found what you needed here Tara. And welcome! Lovely to meet you.
Much love
Lissa

Sarah McKay

LOVE this post Lissa! I’m so glad I found you, perhaps I’m not as far down the track as you (away from conventional medicine….), but reading this post I wonder if it is all the same, just how you look at the evidence… I recently wrote a similar post in my own blog about stress and brain health based on my familie’s experience of a natural disaster. Maybe some of your readers might be interested… http://yourbrainhealth.com.au/chronic-stress-earthquakes-and-long-term-brain-health/